Brand Director

Artists Equity; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Hollylist in Los Angeles is seeking a Brand Director to lead senior client relationships and own the cross-functional team from brief to launch.

You will defend strong ideas, manage budgets and timelines, and ensure production stays on track while growing the client relationship with proactive thinking and strategic insight.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in account leadership, brand management, or client services, with a mix of agency and brand-side (in-house or client) experience.
• Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, business, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
• Proven track record of leading senior client relationships and delivering high-profile advertising, branded content, or integrated marketing campaigns.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end production, from brief and creative development through shoot, post-production, and delivery.
• Experience building and managing budgets, scopes of work, and project financials.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and align cross-functional teams across creative, strategy, production, and legal.
• Excellent presentation, communication, and negotiation skills, with the confidence to sell in work and push back with senior stakeholders.
• Experience managing and mentoring account or brand teams.
• Ability to perform under pressure, manage multiple priorities, and make sound decisions on tight timelines.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the day-to-day lead and trusted strategic advisor to senior clients, earning their confidence, managing expectations, and pushing back when it serves the work.
• Bring creative, strategy, production, media, and legal together around a clear plan, keeping everyone aligned, accountable, and moving in the same direction.
• Protect the integrity of the work from brief to launch, guiding it through client feedback, budget pressure, and shifting timelines without letting it get watered down.
• Understand the client's business deeply, identify new opportunities, and grow the relationship through smart, proactive thinking.
• Build and track project budgets, scopes of work, and estimates, ensuring profitability for the agency and value for the client.
• Know the status of schedules, deliverables, and approvals at all times, anticipating problems before they become surprises.
• Ensure contracts, usage terms, licensing, and union requirements are handled correctly, minimizing risk for both the agency and the client.
• Make sound decisions under tight deadlines, balancing speed with quality when the window to act is short.

Skills

Account leadership

Brand management

Client services

Presentation skills

Negotiation skills

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, business

Equivalent professional experience

Job description

Brand Director

Los Angeles, CA 90069

Overview

Salary Range

$150,000.00 - $175,000.00 Salary

Description

Position Summary

Our work stops people in their tracks. Cultural moments, fast timelines, real stakes, and clients betting big on the idea. As Brand Director, you will lead it from the account side. You won’t just be directing traffic. You’ll own the client relationship, rally a cross-functional team, defend great ideas from getting sanded down, and know exactly where production stands, even at 11pm on a Tuesday.

Essential Functions

• Serve as the day-to-day lead and trusted strategic advisor to senior clients, earning their confidence, managing expectations, and pushing back when it serves the work.
• Bring creative, strategy, production, media, and legal together around a clear plan, keeping everyone aligned, accountable, and moving in the same direction.
• Protect the integrity of the work from brief to launch, guiding it through client feedback, budget pressure, and shifting timelines without letting it get watered down.
• Understand the client's business deeply, identify new opportunities, and grow the relationship through smart, proactive thinking.
• Build and track project budgets, scopes of work, and estimates, ensuring profitability for the agency and value for the client.
• Know the status of schedules, deliverables, and approvals at all times, anticipating problems before they become surprises.
• Ensure contracts, usage terms, licensing, and union requirements are handled correctly, minimizing risk for both the agency and the client.
• Make sound decisions under tight deadlines, balancing speed with quality when the window to act is short.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in account leadership, brand management, or client services, with a mix of agency and brand-side (in-house or client) experience.
• Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, business, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
• Proven track record of leading senior client relationships and delivering high-profile advertising, branded content, or integrated marketing campaigns.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end production, from brief and creative development through shoot, post-production, and delivery.
• Experience building and managing budgets, scopes of work, and project financials.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and align cross-functional teams across creative, strategy, production, and legal.
• Excellent presentation, communication, and negotiation skills, with the confidence to sell in work and push back with senior stakeholders.
• Experience managing and mentoring account or brand teams.
• Ability to perform under pressure, manage multiple priorities, and make sound decisions on tight timelines.

Personal Attributes:

• Thrives in a fast-paced, deadline-driven agency environment
• Automotive, sport, entertainment, or another category where fandom and heritage are part of their brief.
• Live event and on-site activation production
• Experience with tentpole broadcast moments and the compressed timelines they create.